Media appearances

May 2024
"Computer Science Vice Chair Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D., Named Editor-in-chief of International Journal" - article by Beth Eberth.

This article features details of the appointment of Dr. Kurgan as Editor-in-chief of the Biomoleculer journal.
The article was published in the VCU News on May 10, 2024.

April 2023
"VCU College of Engineering presents Dean’s Excellence Awards to Faculty and Staff Who Made Significant Contributions Throughout the Year" - article by Jennifer Pulver.

This article describes Dean’s Excellence Awards Program and its 2024 receipients, including Dr. Kurgan who won the Dean’s Research Excellence Award.
The article was published in the VCU News on April 3, 2024.

December 2023
"Professor of computer science Lukasz Kurgan inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology" - article by Beth Eberth.

This article covers induction of Dr. Kurgan as a Fellow of RSB.
The article was published in the VCU News on December 7, 2023.

September 2023
"Peptone: finding opportunity in disorder" - article by Michael Eisenstein.

This article covers developments in targeting intrinsically disordered proteins for drug development. Dr. Kurgan provides an independent academic perspective on these developments.
The article was published in the Nature Biotechnology on September 19, 2023.

June 2023
"Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D., computer science professor, inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts" - article by David Pulgar.

This article covers induction of Dr. Kurgan as a Member of EASA, one of the 38 new members worlwide.
The article was published in the VCU News on June 9, 2023.

November 2022
"Researchers develop award-winning method to predict intrinsic disorder in proteins" - article by David Pulgar.

This article briefly describes our recent efforts in the area of the prediction of intrinsic disorder in proteins.
It was published in the 2021-2022 annual report for the VCU's Computer Science department that was distributed to alumni and currect students and employees, and which is also available online to the broader public.

May 2021
"Computer science research team gains international recognition for method that accurately predicts intrinsic disorder in proteins" - interview by Rebecca Jones.

This article covers our recent win in the major international Critical Assessment of Protein Intrinsic Disorder Prediction (CAID) competition.
The article was published in the VCU News on May 19, 2021.

April 2018
"VCU professors join elite bioengineering institute" - interview by Anya Sczerzenie.

This article covers induction of Dr. Kurgan as a Fellow of AIMBE among three VCU professors that were honored with this recognition.
The article was published in the Commonwealth Times on April 16, 2018.

April 2018
"VCU professors join elite biomedical engineering group" - interview by Leila Ugincius.

This article provides details concerning induction of Dr. Kurgan and two other professors at VCU as Fellows of AIMBE.
The article was published in the VCU News on April 9, 2018.

November 2017
"Bioinformatics aids in knowing the intrinsically disordered proteins" - article by Insightscare.

The article focuses on the contributions to computational analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins coming from our lab.
The article was published in the Insightscare in Novemver 2017.

July 2017
"Bioinformatics to help understand intrinsically disordered proteins" - article by Technology Networks.

This news article focuses on the new tools for the analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins that were developed in our lab.
The article was published in the Technology Networks on July 27, 2017.

July 2017
"VCU's Kurgan supercomputer programs help biologists to speed up hypothesis generation to understand proteins" - interview by Tyler O'Neal.

This interview discusses our novel computational methods for the computational analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins.
The interview was published in the Supercomputing Online News on July 21, 2017.

July 2017
"Bioinformatics computer programs help biologists understand intrinsically disordered proteins" - interview by Leah Small.

This interview highlights our innovative bioinformatics programs for the analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins.
This original interview was covered in the VCU NEWS article on July 20, 2017. The interview was also re-posted on the phys.org and the wn.com websites.

December 2014
"Unravelling the complexity of proteins"

This interview focuses on our collaborative project in structural genomics that investigates structural coverage for 10 million proteins, with implication to define structural protein universe.
The interview was published in the Dec 1, 2014 issue of the ScienceDaily. This project was in collaboration with Prof. Joachimiak from the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics.

December 2014
"Crystallography for Complete Proteomes" - interview by Lauren Arcuri.

This interview discusses our collaborative project in structural genomics that investigates structural coverage for 10,000,000 proteins.
The interview was published in theDec 22, 2014 issue of the BioTechniques. project was in collaboration with Prof. Joachimiak from the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics.

December 2008
"Zeroing In..." - interview by Catherine Shaffer.

This interview explores our collaborative project concerning the development of new computational technologies to find and characterize new drug targets.
The interview was published in the December issue of Drug Design and Development magazine (vol.11, no.12, pp. 29-31). This project was in collaboration with Prof. Tuszynski lab at Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton and Prof. Antoniou lab at the University of Victoria.